Super-Abounding Through Divine Work

I want to pick up where I left off in my last post, Our Divine Work, and continue to talk about the resulting abundance we can experience when our efforts are directed by divine instruction.

Previously, I laid out the important keys Yeshua revealed to us as He perfectly illustrated the word abad through the actions of his life:

• We must live within the entrance of our Father’s house, and Christ is that doorway.

• We must always be watching to see what our Father is about to do; watching to see what’s coming and going through that entrance, and pay attention to the Spirit at work in and around us.

• We must move and act from the position of fruitful rest, which prepares us to receive and administer abundance and increase.

With these principles being demonstrated by a life not scripted by the cares or “wisdom” of the world but influenced by the Father’s voice, Yeshua was able to manifest the super-abundance of His Father’s house in every way. His physical needs and relational connections all experienced divine increase from the work he performed among man and creation. The divine instructions of His Father’s voice enabled Him to work from an effective place of rest that produced far greater results then anyone that came before Him.

Turning again to John 6, we see this divine workflow and outcome revealed. After making everyone “recline”—himself already being at rest, Yeshua thanked the Father for the fruitfulness already at hand, and began the divine work of multiplication. The miraculous distribution was so magnificent that no one went away wanting.

This is the first big takeaway: divine work always results in complete satisfaction.

The increase and abundance produced from this kind of effort never comes up short. As it says in Isaiah 55:10-11,

“For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat, so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.”

In John 6, we see the manifested Word from Heaven at work in the earth. Nothing spoken—nothing done by Him came up empty. Yeshua accomplished exactly what pleased the Father. In fruitful rest He multiplied the abundance of the provision at hand. In this case, five loaves of bread and two fish.

The outcome made the crowds marvel. To see the Son of Man produce with simple ease what the mightiest kings of the earth could not, astounded them. Here was a man that had the ability to take a simple meal for one person and multiply it in order to feed a nation. It’s no wonder they wanted to make Him King in that instant. In their minds, world hunger finally had a solution!

However, for the Son of God, filling thousands of bellies was just a sign that was pointing at something greater. This temporal blessing was only an appetizer of what was possible through the Word of God—the Bread of Heaven. But most of the crowd that day couldn’t look past their stomachs to see it.

And this brings us to John 6:12:

“Now when they were filled, He says to His disciples, “Gather together the fragments having superabounded, so that nothing may be lost.”

This is the second (and I think most significant) takeaway: divine work has no waste—no loss.

The manifested word of the Father never returns empty, but accomplishes exactly what it is sent to do, prospers in every direction, and loses none of the energy exerted in the effort.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics states: In any natural thermodynamic process (work or effort exerted), the total entropy (loss or breakdown) of an isolated system always increases over time.

Essentially, what it’s saying is that natural work will always experience some amount of energy loss, and over time all effort will result in complete loss. This is the entropy of the universe. This is the result of sin and corruption—the result of work done outside the Garden.

No matter how large the return on investment we get from our efforts, there is an attrition clock always ticking. Waste and loss are always present in work done below the sun—outside the Garden.

This is why Yeshua said…

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven…”

and…

“Do not work for the food that is perishing, but for the food remaining unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you…”

Yeshua experienced no waste or loss in all His efforts. That’s why He could say,

“While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost…”

The true beauty behind Yeshua’s work on the mountain that day wasn’t the abundance of provision, it was the multiplication of the true Bread. You see, the divine work of the Father in Yeshua was to make more bread. And his efforts were successful and prospered with no loss!

By believing that He is the bread coming down out of heaven and giving life to the world, we become bread as well. We are the resulting super-abounding fragments of the true bread gathered up that day. The Bread of Heaven didn’t give Himself to prove that He could feed the world or solve any of it’s problems. He broke and distributed Himself so that He could multiply Himself—in us.

And as we remain branches of the Vine, our own fruitful rest in the Father’s voice will produce in us the same. As our Brother demonstrated for us, the divine work that our Father gives us through His word will undoubtedly accomplish what it is sent to do, and magnificently create a super-abundance around us that perfectly satisfies, leaves no waste, and experiences no loss.

This is the nature of divine work. This is the outcome for all who perform from the place of fruitful rest—in the divine, prescribed way of the Garden.

Until next time, may you discover His divine, super-abounding work for you through rest, and continue to pursue the “you” the Father has designed you to be.

Shalom